I am product loyal.

If something I use works to my satisfaction, I'll continue to buy that brand.

Sometimes you have to be prepared to pay for it though.

Case in point:

There's a brand of shoe that I've been wearing a long, long time -

probably longer than most of you have been alive.

The good news is that these shoes last quite a while.

The bad news is that when you finally need to replace them it'll cost you.

The last pair of these excellent shoes I bought cost me $35.00.

Now, to replace them with the same type - $90.00.

That's how good they are and how long they last.

Are they worth the increased cost?

Could I find something comparable somewhere else for less?

Yes and yes.

But - I am, like I said, product loyal and I am happy when I know what I'm getting.

So I'll pay for the increase.

What price happiness?

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!

5 more friends unfollowed today because they're using FB to self promote their business.

And the drama queens are next.

Is it a pandemic related shut down shopping online experience that I feel giddy about ordering a large supply of bar soap at a steal of a price today?

How about the soon to be rising expectation of seeing the package left outside my front door in two days?

Is this the new normalcy?

Will I ever miss the contact of buying in person again?

Oh well, never mind.

It's time to order dinner.

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Today feels like the bottom of the ninth.

If I don't win some money in the lotto from last night, I have to go back to work Monday.

Checking now (fingers crossed):

It looks like Mighty Casey has struck out.

There is no joy in Muddville today.

Original Chicago, when they were known as Chicago Transit Authority:


Long and groovin'

I was on break at work.

I went outside to have a smoke and when I do, the mind starts to contemplate life in the stillness.

I was thinking about a dream I'd had where I was a doctor.

I have all kinds of vocations in my dreams:

I've been a cop, a teacher, an actor - the list goes on and on.

What dawned on me was this:

If there are multi-verses of other earths in other dimensions, could our dreams be portals to see other versions of ourselves on these other earths?

I kind of like the idea.

I wouldn't expect every other one of me to be exactly the same.

Just food for thought.

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I have had an aunt (four months ago) and an uncle (two weeks ago) pass on this year.

I have one aunt left now. I once had nine of each.

Pictures bring back memories, but it isn't the same as seeing them and talking with them.

What people tell you is true -

cherish your family while you still have them.

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I am not a foot fan. I can see why women paint their toenails, though. Otherwise we'd be looking at some pretty gross looking nails.

I'm an old man now and the only time I wear flip-flops or go barefoot is around the house.

I also don't like fake fingernails, but that's another subject for another day... the same with shaving off pubic hair.

Some things (to me) are better off being more natural.

Yeah, I'm an old guy in an ever changing world.

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Workers out installing new gutters this morning.

I just love the sound of banging and drilling first thing in the morning.

NOT!